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I was recently informed by a co worker that our supervisor held a private meeting two weeks after she joined the company. In this meeting, she was told that she needed to "watch out for me" The new employee was told that I was difficult, negative, had no experience in my field ( I have nearly two decades of experience) and that I was not to be to be allowed to talk to clients. The new hire was told that in the supervisor's absence, she would be "in charge" and I was never to be in charge. I am over forty and the only male employee in my department.
Do I have any legal recourse?
I think you're co-worker is making up a story so that she can be in charge. Why is she hitting on all points (you are negative AND difficult AND have no experience AND can't talk to clients AND you are never to be in charge) like that? Why do you just assume she is telling the truth here? She has a lot to gain by having you play a secondary role to her.
It's a shame that you don't respect the supervisor enough to even consider this as a possibility.
If your co-worker confided in you enough to share the dirt from a secret meeting that was meant to discuss you in private, then this person respects you more than she does your supervisor. The supervisor may be poisoning every employee against you.
That's kind of a stretch. It could also mean that his new coworker has no respect for him and wants to belittle him by making this info known.
It's also a stretch to assume the supervisor is threatened by him, she could be genuinely trying to make the new employee aware of potential problems with the guy. It happens.
For what?
Gossip by someone who just might be after your job?
For all you know, the new employee made it all up....
Agreed.
Unless their was some previous beef with the supervisor that the OP left out, I would be very careful about automatically believing something like that said by someone who's been there a few weeks.
Use common sense, OP.
Why would your supervisor trust a newbie with this info? Why would a newbie (whose allegiance should lie with management in a new job) spill the beans?
Has the supervisor actively done anything to you in the past?
I know that it feels good to believe that a manger is threatened by you, but just don't.
It could all be the truth the co-worker passed on. The supervisor may very well be unsatisfied with the OP's work, and attitude, and just warning the co-worker.
The supervisor may see things a lot different than the OP sees them. This is quite common in the work place.
Walk it off. Then try to find a job that is as close to 100% male as possible.
I am a female, so I hate to say it but yes.
Most women are wretched to other women. The reason we don't get further in business is because women spend a lot of time cutting on other women. Men stick together and generally dodge the bratty bull*.
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